Twin City Wood Recycling

What Not to Use Your Dumpster For

While dumpsters can be used for multiple waste and recycling projects, whether big or small, there are certain things for which a dumpster cannot be used. Most of the things for which dumpsters cannot be used pertain to any sort of toxic or hazardous waste. The types of waste listed below cannot be put into dumpsters as waste. There are alternate ways to dispose of those types of wasteWhat Cannot Go Into a Roll-Off DumpsterElectronicsThis includes mainly all televisions, radios,…

Here's How to Price Scrap Metal

Learn about the steps necessary to price scrap metal properly, including tips on identification and market resources.

How to Sort Scrap Metal

Selling scrap metal can be a great way to supplement your income, or you can do it full time. Before you can sell your scrap metal to a scrap yard, you need to separate the different metals in your scrap. A scrap magnet will help you...

Here's why you should NOT leave scrap metal at the end of your drive

Police are now urging people to arrange for items to be collected

Quick Tips for Scrapping

If you are looking for money-making quick tips for scrapping, you have come to the right place. The iScrap App team shows you some tips for your metals.

3 Cool Uses For Repurposed (Or Reclaimed) Wood

These 3 repurposed or reclaimed wood projects allow you to save money and create a real WOW factor to your home’s exterior or interior décor.

Taking wood from derelict schooners becomes the ultimate recycling project

What happened to the wood scavenged from the Hesper and Luther Little nearly 2 decades ago?

Cities and Towns are Abandoning Glass Recycling. Can It Be Saved?

Glass is highly recyclable, but collection of the material through single-stream recycling programs is falling out of favor in many cities because of contamination problems and high costs.

Dr. Wood: Recycle fluorescent lighting to protect family, environment

In Washington state, it is required that all mercury-containing lights be recycled.

Wood-burning fireplaces and your health: How to stay safe

Wood-burning fireplaces can produce harmful pollutants, but these precautions reduce the risk of adverse health impacts.

Can Printed and Recyclable Electronic Technology Truly Help Save the Planet?

A team from Duke University hopes the technology will help alleviate the problem of electronic waste with recyclable printed transistors.

The 10 Best Reclaimed Wood Books

The reclaimed wood business is always turning over a new page. As new types of structures come of age and are eventually demolished, new species of wood and new types of building lumber enter the recycling stream. Good background research is, therefore, an important part of identifying possible larger and sustainable sources of reclaimed timber. These ten wood books are essential reads for American history buffs or reclaimed lumber businesspeople.

Solving the recycling puzzle

Setting up successful recycling systems in apartment buildings is like a puzzle. You can have all the pieces right in front of you, but they don’t work together until every piece is in the right place.

Extra recycling fee makes it tough to help the environment

Glynn County residents are responsible citizens. They care about their community, their state, their nation and their world.

Recycling is an Important Part of Every Day

Recycling Should Be Part of Your Everyday Life. Reuse everything possible and try to reduce your carbon footprint. Cities are making this easier these days/

Your stove is leaking way more gas than you think

Creative Things to Do with Wood Crates

It's time to think out of the box! Amp up the storage in your home with new and creative ways to use (and reuse) wood crates. Whether you're making a DIY coffee table or a homemade wine station, our wood crate ideas are perfect for your decor.